Medical Intensive Care Unit

The Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU) at Y-NHH is regarded as one of the region's elite ICUs. The MICU proper, housed on 5-4, has 14 beds and admits approximately 1,000 patients per year. The MICU team cares for an average census of 18-24 critically ill patients throughout the hospital. This census can rise into the thirties during busy months. Because of the high census, the MICU is now covered at all times by two teams, each consisting of a PCCM attending, a PCCM fellow, two residents, and two interns, in addition to Emergency Medicine residents and Yale medical students. Yale faculty spend an average of 10-14 hours per day in the MICU, leading work rounds seven days per week and conducting attending rounds 3-5 days per week. Recent achievements include the development and implementation of several successful management protocols, inauguration of a new Step Down Unit on 5-7, creation of a new MICU syllabus for house staff on CD-ROM, and dramatic decreases in the incidence of nosocomial catheter and pulmonary infections. In addition, the MICU is a haven for clinical research, with multiple faculty conducting studies in acute lung injury, cognitive impairment, diabetes management, weaning from mechanical ventilation, and end-of-life care. The activities in the MICU were recently recognized with a Press Ganey Compass Award. Patients can be transferred to the MICU at any time of day or night. For additional Information or to transfer a patient please contact Mark Siegel, M.D., Medical Director of the MICU.